Broadway baby.

Movie Reviews & Stories
For someone who made her Broadway debut 68 years ago,
Elaine Stritch is still quite the firecracker. Dressed in her trademark
white collared shirt and black tights—as Tina Fey notes, the long-le
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Bar Reviews
For a bar that barely announces its presence—just a plain storefront, the name in cursive on the window—Pepe Le Moko (407 SW 10th Ave., 546-8537, pepelemokopdx.com)
arrives with a near-cacophono
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W. Kamau Bell on racism and ninjas.

Comedy and Variety
W. Kamau Bell wants to make you uncomfortable.
Bell, one of the
sharpest voices on race and politics in today’s comedy scene, has no
qualms about calling out people’s assumptions, hypocrisie
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Girl, I didn’t know you could get down like that.

Theater
My all-time favorite Onion story is one from 2012
headlined “Female Friends Spend Raucous Night Validating the Living Shit
Out of Each Other.” I thought back to that article during Independent
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Cranston plays Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan's political drama, which was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Bryan Cranston isn’t the only one making his Broadway debut right now.Bill Rauch, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, directs the Breaking Bad star in All the Way, which opened to positive reviews yesterday, March 6. Cranston plays Lyndon B. John...More

Three decades on, Joanna Priestley’s animation is as inventive as ever.

Movie Reviews & Stories
Joanna Priestley knows abstract animation can be
intimidating. That’s why the independent animator chuckles as she sits
before a sluggish Mac in her Northwest Portland studio and hits “play”
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15 teenagers take on August Wilson.

Theater
Ryan Townsley comes onto the stage swinging. The gangly
17-year-old, a junior at Clackamas High School, stomps his feet, winds
up an imaginary baseball bat and sways side to side as if readying fo
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